A little regex help

Hey Code, I'm working on a new Sanskrit declension module that can work across different scripts, and I was having some issues formulating a regex given Lua's weak pattern syntax. I want to check whether a lemma is monosyllabic ending in ī, but to check for an onset cluster in Devanagari encoding, you need the ् character between each consonant in the cluster, and I can't figure out how to check for:

• zero or more (consonants each followed by ्)
• followed by a consonant with ी

or approximately '^(?:[Deva consonants]्)*[Deva consonants]ी$'

This would be easier if I could do use a Kleene star after a non-capturing group, but Lua doesn't allow that. Do you have any advice for this? Thanks.

You could just capture it and then ignore the capture?

Annoyingly according to the MW docs, Lua patterns do not allow greedy quantification over capture groups.

Then I guess you'll have to make do with several matches, with increasing numbers of preceding consonants.

I think so too. I believe the maximum onset sze in Sanskrit is 3. It is also an interesting question how many words possess this edge case. I'll look into it. Thanks for the advice; though it's odd there isn't an easy way to do this.